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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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Preface

Designing the report request page


The Sales By Customer/Item report from the previous recipe shows only the actual cost amounts. This means that goods shipped, but not yet invoiced, will not be covered in the report.

Getting ready

The following steps will be based on material presented earlier in this chapter. To be able to complete this recipe, you will need to carry out the walkthrough from the previous recipe Writing C/AL code in the report, or import the REP50020_SalesByCustomerItem.txt file from the source files.

The filename in source files is, REP50030_ReportRequestPage.txt.

How to do it...

Now we will use a request page to add an option to the report parameters that will enable the user to choose whether expected cost amounts should be detailed.

  1. Open the report 50020 Sales By Customer/Item in the NAV report designer. Do not open the code editor. The menu item Request Page required in Step 2, is available only from the report data items designer.

  2. From the View menu, access the Request Page...